Jain Journal 2011 07

Author(s): Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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JAIN JOURNAL: VOL-XLVI, NO. 1-IV JULY.-JUNE 11-12
Hindu-mantras, but he tried to make them according by Jaina tradition. In this regard he was influenced by previous Jaina Ācāryas such as Haribhadra, śubhacandra and some others. Nineth chapter of yogaśāstra deals with the rūpasthadhyāna and the tenth chapter of it is devoted to the nature of liberated souls along the four sub-types of dharma dhyāna i.e. Ājñavicaya, Apāyavicaya vipāka-vicaya and sansthāna-vicaya in detail. This chapter deals with these, according to Jaina canonical works and dhyāna śataka. The eleventh chapter of yoga śāstra deals with the sukla-dhyana with its four sub types along with some special qualities of the Arhat or the Tirthankar. This chapter also discusses the process of Samuddhata and achieving liberation (siddha gati). All the discussion of this chapter is based on Jaina's traditional literature. The last twelth chapter deals with four types of mind i.e. (1) vikșipta (2) yātāyāta (3) śilişța and (4) sulina in detail. This kind of division of mind Hemacandra barrowed from the Goraksanāth's Amanaska-yoga.
In this field the contribution of Muni Shri Jambuvijayaji is remarkable. He has given a comparative as well as exhaustive list of the verses of Yoga-śāstra and above mentioned works in the third volume of yoga-śāstra mits Ist appendix Similarly about four seeing at the age and death he also picked-up the informations from the above mentioned texts. Thus we can conclude that while writing Yogashastra, Hamachandra was influenced by other Indian yoga systems particularly Patñtagali's Yogasutra, Hathyogapradīpikā, Amanaskayoga of Goraksanātha, Kulārnava and Gherndasamhita of Hindu tradition, Tattvānuśāsana of Nāgasen of Buddhist tradition as well as śubhạchadra's Jñānārnava of Digambara sect. Here it is to be noted that Hemacandra in writing his yogaśāstra mostly depended on śubhacandra's Jñānārņava along with some Swetambara texts such as Dhyānaśataka, and its Haribhadriyatika, praśamarati, of Umaswati, Brahatkalpabhāşya etc.